Grammar Friday

Never use an apostrophe with years. I turned 21 in the 1970s, not the 1970’s.

Use an apostrophe with these plurals: numbers other than years (there are two 7’s on this page); words used as words (there are too many but’s in that sentence); letters of the alphabet (Mississippi is spelled with four s’s, four i’s and two p’s).

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